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Rofi
A window switcher, application launcher and dmenu replacement
Rofi started as a clone of the simple switcher, written by Sean Pringle - a popup window switcher roughly based on a super switcher. Simpleswitcher laid the foundations, and therefore Sean Pringle deserves most of the credit for this tool. Rofi (renamed, as it lost the simple property) has been extended with extra features, like an application launcher and ssh-launcher, and can act as a drop-in menu replacement, making it a very versatile tool. Rofi, like dmenu, will provide the user with a textual list of options where one or more can be selected. This can either be running an application, selecting a window, or options provided by an external script. It's not an application that can support every possible use case. It tries to be generic enough to be usable by everybody. Rofi has several built-in modes implementing common use cases and can be extended by scripts (either called from Rofi or calling Rofi) or plugins. -
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Rofi Applets
Various useful applets developed with Rofi and shell-scripts
Bundle of easy-to-configure useful Rofi Applets Developed by Umutcan Sevdi. This project requires Rofi. It's a very powerful pop-up/switcher that allows anyone to create powerful menus. You can download it from the package manager of your choice. All applets read color values from applets/global.rasi. Editing color hexcodes will update all existing applets. Create a directory at ROFI_APPLETS_PATH. Then open two files. config.rasi and launch.sh. Instead of defining your own color values, import all of them from global.rasi for consistency. Develop rest like any other rofi applet. Write your launch script to the launch.sh. Applet CLI will automatically recognize your applet on the next run. -
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SnapToWindow
A cross-platform (windows, macOS) window management application
SnapToWindow is a user-experience utility likely aimed at enhancing window management on desktop environments by enabling users to “snap” application windows into predefined screen positions or layouts using keyboard shortcuts or mouse gestures. These kinds of tools are popular for improving productivity, especially on multi-monitor setups, by letting users quickly align and resize windows to halves, quarters, or other grid arrangements without manual dragging. While official project documentation isn’t available from search, the repository name and conventions imply a small, focused tool that hooks into the native windowing system (on Windows, macOS, or Linux) to detect active windows and reposition them based on user commands. It helps streamline workflows for developers, designers, and multitaskers who juggle many open windows and want consistent, repeatable layouts. -
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SwayFX
SwayFX: Sway, but with eye candy
Sway is an incredible window manager, and certainly one of the most well established wayland window managers. However, it is restricted to only include the functionality that existed in i3. This fork ditches the simple wlr_renderer, and replaces it with our fx_renderer, capable of rendering with fancy GLES2 effects. -
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Tiling Shell
Extend Gnome Shell with advanced tiling window management
Extend Gnome Shell with advanced tiling window management. Supports multiple monitors, Windows 11 Snap Assistant, Fancy Zones, customised tiling layouts and more. This is a Gnome Shell extension implementing modern windows tiling system by extending GNOME's default 2 columns to any layout you want! Can be installed on Gnome Shells from 40 to 46 on X11 and Wayland: the most recent GNOME Shell is supported, and older releases will include all the features and bug fixes. -
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Worm
A dynamic, tag-based window manager written in Nim
Worm is a tiny, dynamic, tag-based window manager written in the Nim language. It supports both a floating mode and master-stack tiling with gaps and struts. Worm will try to execute the file ~/.config/worm/rc on startup. Simply create it as a shell-script to execute your favorite applications with worm. (don't forget to make it executable). Worm does not have a built-in keyboard mapper, so you should use something like sxhkd. Please read the docs to understand how wormc works before writing your own sxhkdrc. -
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berry
A healthy, byte-sized window manager
A healthy, bite-sized window manager written in C over the XLib library. Controlled via a powerful command-line client, allowing users to control windows via a hotkey daemon such as sxhkd or expand functionality via shell scripts. -
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river
A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor
River is a dynamic tiling Wayland compositor with a flexible runtime configuration. River can either be run nested in an X11/Wayland session or directly from a tty using KMS/DRM. Simply run the river command. Usually this executable is a shell script invoking riverctl(1) to create mappings, start programs such as a layout generator or status bar, and perform other configuration. -
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win95-dark
Dark win95 IceWM theme
Dark variant of the win95 theme for IceWM. This theme is, in general, just to be a good-looking, basic dark theme. IceWM has a default theme called win95 which is meant to look similar to the look of the Windows 95 operating system. I like that theme since it's pretty basic, but I wanted a dark version. Light colours are turned into darker colours, and vice versa. Tooltips are slightly yellowish in older Windows versions, so I made them dark turquoise, and title bars have a smoother blue colour. -
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Blackbox is that fast, light window manager you have been looking for without all those annoying library dependancies. If you have a C++ compiler and the X Window System you can compile and use it.
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Minime is a tool that allows you to minimize applications to the system tray using a simple hotkey. What makes this tool somewhat unique is that it keeps your system tray clean by minimizing all applications
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Proteus is complete new kind of taskbar which will soon completly replace the common windows taskbar. You can add different components which will add completly new functions and possibilities to your Proteus Taskbar.
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bbtools is a set of simple and small desktop tools for the Blackbox window manager. Tools range from a pager (bbpager) to a mail notifier (bbmail).
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Don't Panic!
Close, hide, minimize and open multiple programs with a single button!
Don't want to get busted by your boss or your teacher playing Solitaire, chatting or surfing the web? Close (hide or minimize) and open multiple programs with the click of a button. So you won't have to panic anymore... -
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mkLink
Make multiple types of symbolic links from the context menu.
mkLink creates multiple types of symbolic links. Specifically, it simplifies the use of creating symbolic links by providing a GUI interface and access from the context menu. Normally advanced symbolic links, such as Hard Links and Directory Junctions can only be created through the command prompt. The following symbolic links can be created with mkLink. * Directory Symbolic Link * File Symbolic Link * Hard Link * Directory Junction -
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AfterStep is a window manager for the Unix X Window System. Originally based on the look and feel of the NeXTStep interface, it has evolved into its own creature with interest expressed by GNUstep, to make AfterStep the window manager of choice for X
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FVWM-Crystal
FVWM-Crystal aims to create an easy to use and powerful desktop.
FVWM - Crystal aims to create an easy to use, eye-candy but also powerful desktop environment for Linux or other Unix-like operating systems. Its goals include seeking for better ways of using window manager and providing it with eyecandy interface. It try to exercise FVWM quite a bit. It has some very interesting features unique to Linux/Unix desktops like direct controls for several media players and its ability to bring in full screen virtualy any application. It can flow through the full screened applications and the desktop in a manner similar to the application stack of the Amiga OS, which provides an innovative way to go around the desktop space, without compromising traditional X multiple desktop pages. The core code was written by harnir Maciej Delmanowski with contributions from many other folks. The current developments are led by Dominique Michel. -
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Star Trek 24/7: LCARS (Starfleet) GUI, full-screen alarm clock & calendar, games, utilities, sims, maps, graphical LCARS library, file manager, viewers, players, animation. Requires a HighColor/TrueColor DOS-based laptop w/ std. graphics & sound cards.
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WindowTop
Set window on top, make it dark, make it transparent and more!
Homepage: http://windowtop.info/ Easly set any window on top, just move the mouse to the top area of the window. a small button will show up - click on it and you will see the "SET TOP" option. In addition you also have "SET OPACITY", and SET CLICK THROUGH WINDOW -- Very useful in combination! Also, you have "SET DARK" - click this button to make the window darker. it will eliminate all the bright white from the window. Use it if you can't white light. NEW: the shrink feature - now you can minimize windows in new form! too many minimized windows in the taskbar? have a big mess in the taskbar? you can minimize windows in a way that they will not shown on the taskbar. they will become to small squares that stay on top. each square is minimized window (in this innovative way). Now you have new space to minimize your windows! not only the taskbar but also the screen itself. -
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Autosofted EasyEyes
EasyEyes adjusts the monitor's brightness and temperature (color).
Autosofted EasyEyes is a brightness and temperature (color) adjustment tool designed to take the bright lights off your monitor during the evening. The tool automatically adjusts the brightness & color of your monitor as it gets later in the evening, or you can choose to manually adjust the brightness & color. This windows application reduces eye strain and helps trick the body into being able to sleep at night. EasyEyes can run stealthily in the background with minimal impact to performance. -
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TrayMenu
An alternative, freely configurable Start menu for Windows
TrayMenu creates a hierarchical menu from the contents of any folder for quick access to applications, files, scripts, etc. The menu, which is based on the classic folder-based Start menu of earlier versions of Windows, can be accessed via an icon in the taskbar. No administrator rights are required for installation, which means that it can be used on computers with limited user rights. -
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Wmping is a simple usefull program that allows to check host status in your network environment. It can be used for monitoring servers in the network.
